Ἰστρία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἴστρος (Ístros) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ís.trí.aː/ → /ˈisˈtri.a/ → /ˈisˈtri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ís.trí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈisˈtri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈisˈtri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈisˈtri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈisˈtri.a/

Proper noun

Ἰστρῐ́ᾱ • (Istrĭ́ā) f (genitive Ἰστρῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Istria

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἰστρῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ἰστρῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἰστρῐ́ᾱ hē Istrĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς Ἰστρῐ́ᾱς tês Istrĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Ἰστρῐ́ᾳ têi Istrĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Ἰστρῐ́ᾱν tḕn Istrĭ́ān
Vocative	Ἰστρῐ́ᾱ Istrĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἰστρῐᾱνός (Istrĭānós)

Descendants

• German: Istrien
• Greek: Ιστρία (Istría)
• Hungarian: Isztria
• Italian: Istria
• Latin: Histria
• Romanian: Istria
• Serbo-Croatian: Истра
• Slovene: Istra
• Venetan: Istria

Further reading

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014